OBITUARY. 



FREDERICK SCHWATKA. 



Born September 29, 1849. Died October, 1892. 



"117E regret to chronicle the death of this able explorer. Schwatka 

 • ' was born at Galena, Illinois. After graduating at West Point in 

 1871, he was admitted to the Nebraska Bar, and about the same time 

 took a medical degree in New York. He was a lieutenant of cavalry 

 till 1877, and in 1878 was appointed as commander of the expedition 

 to King William's Land. Among other most important work, he 

 completed the gaps in the narratives of Sir John Rae and Sir Leopold 

 McClintock ; and he discovered skeletons of several of Sir John 

 Franklin's party. His great sledge-journey on this expedition, which 

 lasted from April i, 1879, to March 4, 1880, covered 3,250 miles. He 

 left the army in 1884, after a visit to Alaska, where he followed the 

 course of the Yukon River. Returning to Alaska in 1884, as the 

 leader of the " Neiv York Times' Expedition," he explored the Mount 

 St. Elias district, and ascended that peak to a height of 7,000 feet. 

 After visiting Chihuahua in 1889, for the proprietors of the journal 

 America, he once more returned to Alaska in 1891, and opened up 

 some 700 miles of previously unknown country. 



Schwatka's best-known works are: — Along Alaska's Great River 

 (1885) and Nimrod in the North (1885). Mr. W^ H. Gilder has 

 recorded his 1878-80 expedition under the title of Schwatka s Search] 

 ■Sledging for Franklin Records (1882). 



THOMAS JOHN MOORE, A.L.S., Corr. Mem. Z.S. 

 Born 1824. Died October 31, 1892. 



DY the death of Mr. T. J. Moore on October 31 last, the Liver. 

 ^ pool Museum loses its first Curator, and a familiar figure is 

 removed from scientific circles in the seaport. The son of a Keeper 

 in the Zoological Gardens, London, Mr. Moore early evinced a keen 

 interest in Natural History pursuits ; and at the age of 19 he was 

 appointed Assistant-Curator of the Earl of Derby's Museum at 

 Knowsley. On the death of its founder, the 13th Earl, in 1851, this 

 collection was bequeathed to Liverpool, and Mr. Moore was then 

 appointed Curator by the Corporation. During the last forty years 

 he devoted unceasing energy to the perfection of the Museum, more 



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